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Manuscripts, Versions, and the Fathers: Calamy''s Second Sermon on 1 John 5:7
Calamy answers the case from Greek manuscripts, ancient versions, and patristic silence, then weighs the Latin and African witnesses available to him.
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William Whitaker’s Rule for Every Translation
Whitaker’s answer to Vulgate supremacy is a universal rule: every version is received when it agrees with the inspired originals and corrected when it does not. He expressly applies that principle to the Greek translation of the Seventy.
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The Text We Have: What Confessional Bibliology Actually Affirms
Confessional Bibliology names an original-language standard and distinguishes it from the history of printed editions and from the Authorized Version as an English translation.
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Did the Westminster Divines Confess an Abstract or Accessible Text?
A text that exists only as unidentified readings scattered among witnesses cannot be translated or finally appealed to. WCF 1.8 speaks of an accessible Hebrew and Greek norm possessed by the church.
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What Did God Promise to Preserve? Books, Words, and the Whole Counsel of God
Providential preservation concerns God’s inscripturated revelation in its canonical and verbal fullness—not merely surviving religious ideas, a sufficient doctrinal residue, or the continued existence of particular manuscripts.
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What the Church Means by the Canon
The canon is not merely a list of favored books. It is the complete collection God gave as the Church’s permanent rule: divinely constituted, covenantally delivered, providentially preserved, and ecclesiastically received.
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The Inerrancy of the Autographa: What Bahnsen Rightly Affirmed
Before criticizing Bahnsen’s textual locus, a fair account must recognize his strong defense of divine authorship, verbal and plenary inspiration, complete truthfulness, and the real authority of faithful copies.
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One Bible, Many Reconstructions: Where Does the Text Exist?
There is a sentence in Wesley Huff’s account of the New Testament that invites confidence and postpones definition. The original writings, he says, have been lost; nevertheless, the Bible itself was not lost. New discoveries have instead broadened our knowledge and allowed…
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Circularity, Ultimate Authority, and the Myth of Neutral Textual Criticism
James White calls Confessional Bibliology viciously circular. The proper answer distinguishes unavoidable ultimate-authority reasoning from arbitrary question-begging and restores evidence to its ministerial place.
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Book Review: The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? Bibliographical Notice James R. White, The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1995). The Book’s Task and the Opening Verdict James R. White’s The…
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Presuppositional Analysis: The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?: A First-Principles Analysis The Question Beneath the Book’s Question James R. White’s The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust the Modern Translations? rests on prior commitments concerning authority, knowledge, textual…
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The Question Beneath Every Appeal to Scripture
Every appeal to biblical authority assumes that the Church can identify the writings called Scripture. The doctrine of the canon asks which books are God’s Word and how they can be received with divine certainty.
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